Malmචcloses Industry Days programme on a high note
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- 11 May 2022
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MAFF Market Forum, the industry arm of Malmö Arab Film Festival, announced the winners, with a total awards sum of more than 200,000 USD, for which 21 Arab projects competed.
As the 12th edition of the Malmö Arab Film Festival begins to wind down to a close on Monday, May 9th, the weekend belonged to the industry projects, which walked away with a total of more than 200K USD in money funding.
Among the esteemed juries giving out the awards, there was Palestinian filmmaker Suha Arraf, whose writing work on Lemon Tree and The Syrian Bride, both directed by Eran Riklis was only outdone by her fantastic directorial debut Villa Touma, which premiered in 2014 at the Venice Film Festival. Also French-Swedish director, scriptwriter and producer Olivier Guerpillon and former CEO of the Saudi Film Council, Saudi Arabian producer Faisal Baltyuor, who served with Arraf on the Feature Fiction Film Projects in Development jury.
The trio awarded the following prizes:
Swedish Film Institute (Sweden) cash prize of 150,000 SEK: My Father's Scent, Arab producer: Mark Lotfy, Swedish producer: Fadi Atallah, director: Mohamed Siam, country: Egypt, Sweden
Red Sea Film Festival (Saudi Arabia) cash prize of 150,000 SEK: Hadeel, Arab producer: May Odeh, Swedish producer: Shaker Tahrer, director: Ala'a Al Qaisi, country: Jordan, Palestine, Sweden
El Maraya Production (Egypt) Script development and post-production services worth $15,000: My Father's Scent, Arab producer: Mark Lotfy, Swedish producer: Fadi Atallah, director: Mohamed Siam, country: Egypt, Sweden
Musician Hisham Gabr (Egypt) Film Score services worth $15,000: Aisha Can't Fly Away Anymore, Arab producer: Sawsan Yusuf, Swedish producer: Basel Mawlawi, director: Morad Mostafa, country: Egypt, Sweden
Where to Film (Jordan) pre-production services worth $10,000: Weedestine, Arab producer: Mais Salman, Swedish producer: Linda Mutawi, director: Said Zagha, country: Palestine, Jordan, Sweden
The Royal Film Commission (Jordan) filming equipment to be used inside Jordan worth $10,000: Hadeel, Arab producer: May Odeh, Swedish producer: Shaker Tahrer, director: Ala'a Al Qaisi, country: Jordan, Palestine, Sweden
Saudi cinema has been a guest of honour at the festival this year, with a programme that included one of our favourite short films Nour Shams, directed by Faiza Ambah and produced by Basil Khalil. During the MAFF industry days, Abdullah Al Eyyaf Al-Qahtani, CEO of the Saudi Film Commission held a fascinating talk presenting the commission's strategies and its most important goals and projects going forward.
On the Feature Documentary Projects in Development the jury included Amman International Film Festival director Nada Doumani, Swiss film editor Sascha Fülscher and Egyptian writer and film critic Ramy Abdelrazek.
They awarded the following prizes:
Swedish Film Institute (Sweden) cash prize of 75,000 SEK: Women of My Life, Arab producer: Samir, Swedish producer: Louise Åberg, director: Zahraa Ghandour, country: Iraq, Sweden
Red Sea Film Festival (Saudi Arabia) cash prize of 75,000 SEK: Isthmus, producer: Melissa Lindgren, director: Lina Sinjab, country: Lebanon, France, Sweden
Greener Screen (UAE) Environmental Consultancy worth $10,000: Out of Place, producers: Manolo Diaz Rämö and Beatrice Pourbagher Garcia, director: Mohammed Al-Madjalawi, country: Sweden, Qatar
The Short Film Projects in Development jury was made up of Tunisian actress and director Nidhal Guiga, Johan Simonsson and Saudi actress and filmmaker Fatima Al Banawi. Read More…
